Fantastic Bio Poem Levi. It tells me a little bit more about you! Excellent voiceovers and great builds used for your words. Miss Crone :)
WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10 WALT: clarify, summarise and understand text
School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One
THE GAME Miss Crone's corrections in green
Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think best describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think best describe the arcade itself. Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.
young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit
Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player?
The fingers on his left and danced over four keys set on a lever only one word Levi! 2.Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine Matts face was pale, his eyes flicked from side to side and his whole face was screwed up
3.Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters? Becausethey had no reflexes
Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply: I like/don’t like arcade games because The best arcade game I’ve ever played is because
Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself: This story suggest two things that many people will _ disturbing. One is that we are already under _ from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our , the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is _ . The second disturbing thing is the _ that children are the key to defeating _ aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real _ against a _ enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world!
attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare
The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.
George woke up about mid-day
George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was
George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies
A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him
George followed the Maori along a faint track
Night began to fall
George smelled food
Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp
The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily
Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail
You only have 8 and 9 in the wrong place - good work Levi
Complete these sentences using information from the story
George didn’t know where he was because-he was lost in the mountainshe bumped his head
George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’- Because Robbie Burns told himabout ghosts and ghoulies
The Maori guide suggested that George keep quiet by not telling his friends that there was a moari on the tracksignalling him with his finger
The first sign that there was a camp nearby was that George could smell the food his friends were making
When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:
Keep quiet
Speed up
Stop
Come here
Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply If I had found myself lost like George I would have _ I think the best word to describe George is because I enjoyed/did not enjoy this story because
If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost
Fantastic Bio Poem Levi. It tells me a little bit more about you! Excellent voiceovers and great builds used for your words.
Miss Crone :)
WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10
WALT: clarify, summarise and understand text
School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One
THE GAME Miss Crone's corrections in green
Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think best describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think best describe the arcade itself. Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.
young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit
virtually adult-free menacing cheerful lowlife scum
Answer these:
- Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player?
The fingers on his left and danced over four keys set on a lever only one word Levi!2.Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine
Matts face was pale, his eyes flicked from side to side and his whole face was screwed up
3.Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters? Because they had no reflexes
Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:
I like/don’t like arcade games because
The best arcade game I’ve ever played is because
Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:
This story suggest two things that many people will _ disturbing. One is that we are already under _ from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our , the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is _ . The second disturbing thing is the _ that children are the key to defeating _ aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real _ against a _ enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world!
attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare
The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
shoved skidded flicked gripped jerked bounded hurtled clawing
WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10
THERE STOOD A MAN
Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.
- George woke up about mid-day
- George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was
- George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies
- A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him
- George followed the Maori along a faint track
- Night began to fall
- George smelled food
- Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp
- The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily
- Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail
You only have 8 and 9 in the wrong place - good work Levi
Complete these sentences using information from the story
When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:
Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply
If I had found myself lost like George I would have _
I think the best word to describe George is because
I enjoyed/did not enjoy this story because
If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost